Remote weather stations use Ravica SensorProbes

October 1, 2009 by
Filed under: environmental monitoring, humidity monitoring, temperature monitoring 

I love finding new ways people are using our probes! I just finished a call with a university up here in the north land, who wanted to use our probes in their remote data station. The remote data station is part of a funded study to determine the changing weather conditions in the area.weather

The problem is that the grant they received would fund the weather monitoring equipment, but not the equipment that would run the unmanned station. The good news is that their technology budget would cover the BitSight8 and the required sensors.

They needed to be able to monitor temperature, humidity, airflow  and security. The customer explained to me that since this was an unmanned station, knowing if anyone has opened the server room door was extremely important.

We spent some time talking about the various environmental conditions and how they can affect the servers. He was surprised how the environmental conditions would effect the station’s performance.

The environmental conditions of the area can change throughout the year. The winters can drop below zero, while the  temperature during the summer months is in the 90′s with high humidity. Monitoring for humidity is vital; condensation on a circuit board can kill a machine. Having a monitor in place is absolutely vital.

We then went over the alerting and reporting ability of  the probe and how this unmanned station’s IT center would be fully monitored. I also spent some time explaining the SecurityProbe and how it would alert them when someone opened the door. I am looking forward to the install date. I hope that it is in the summer. I hate snow!

- JimmyD

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